Does this look familiar ? =)
From the Bhakti List Archives
• June 7, 1995
Greetings It occurs to me, we really haven't discussed one thing here in our wide, varied, and enjoyable discussions - the loss of faith. Now this discussion may be in itself oxymoronic, considering the fact that both bhakti and prapatti require mahaviswasa - a very great faith, and those are the two names for this mailing list. So if you have never been troubled by this, and don't want to be, hit 'n' now =) Personally, and by proxy through people I know and love, I have experienced loss of faith. I have feet of clay, it happens. It is worse when someone close to you goes through this loss of faith, and you have nothing to say to them. I am not prepared to mouth platitudes when the magnitude of the problem is this fundamental. Somehow, quoting " sarva DHarmaan parityajya / mAm ekam sharaNam vraja " does not quite cut it. Who said it first had a heck of a lot more going for him than i ever will =) How does one deal with this.. I ask for answers on a very real basis. I am willing to discuss this at great length, and I promise to be short with anyone who comes up with stock formulas =) - don't say I didn't warn you =) "Transplanted" as I am, I will not deny that faith has been one of the underpinnings that kept me connected, to myself and to my roots. However, it is sorely tested every now and then, not by things like " why do good things happen to bad people or vice versa" but by a fundamental nihilism. This would not, however, interfere with my immersing myself in something of beauty that had a relationship to faith, however - if that's a paradox, so be it. Anyway, I think that is enough of a seed for discussion. Any volunteers to "boldly go where no one has gone before " ? - Sundar
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